Publications by authors named "M D Gretz"
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- The DRM paradigm demonstrates that unique encoding of list items decreases false recognition of critical lures compared to simple reading.
- Participants who engaged in an anagram generation task showed improved correct recognition and reduced false recognition for both strongly and weakly related lures.
- These findings suggest that the benefits of distinctive encoding extend to both enhancing memory retrieval and reducing the encoding of irrelevant related items, promoting better monitoring during tests.
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- The distinctiveness effect enhances memory for unique items by influencing how they are encoded and retrieved.
- This study investigates if statistical distinctiveness, based on how often items are processed, offers additional memory benefits.
- Results showed that deeper processing tasks improved recognition, but frequency of task completion didn't lead to better recognition, suggesting traditional distinctiveness is more impactful than statistical distinctiveness.
Prior research has emphasized that performing distinctive encoding on a subset of lists in the DRM paradigm suppresses false recognition; we show that its benefits can be mitigated by costs and spillover effects. Within groups read half the DRM lists and solved anagrams for the other half using a strategy that emphasized either item-specific or relational processing. Their recognition was compared to three pure-list control groups (read, item-specific generation, relational generation).
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- Avoidance responses are mechanisms organisms use to escape stress, and benthic microalgae like Cylindrotheca closterium can drift to avoid unfavorable salinities.
- A new system determined that hypo-saline stress triggers drifting at a lower salinity level (15) compared to the level that inhibits growth by 50% (19).
- The study found that considering both drifting and growth inhibition gives a more accurate picture of population decline, suggesting that relying solely on growth inhibition could underestimate risks to the population.
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- The study focuses on cell-wall development in the desmid Penium margaritaceum using monoclonal antibodies to observe different forms of homogalacturonan (HG) during cell expansion.
- The research found that HG was secreted in a high-esterified form at a specific area called the HG secretion band, which is involved in creating a rigid cell wall as the cell expands.
- The activity of the HG secretion band was linked to the cell's nucleus and its movement during the cell cycle, indicating that the timing and location of HG secretion are crucial for proper cell expansion and wall formation.